SHARE ON: Lady in hospital (Photo from Pixabay) Over 12,000 health care workers have signed the ‘Stop Gouging Health Care Workers’ petition created by Christina Gower, a Registered Psychiatric nurse. The petition is fighting to decrease the cost of fees required for Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN), Registered Nurses (RN), Registered Psychiatric Nurses and Nurse Practitioners in BC to continue working. The yearly cost of fees for a nurse in BC depends on their classification, however, according to Gower the near 9,000 LPN’s in BC are hit the hardest by the fees. “It costs around $2,600 for me to work a year,” she explained, “my Union dues are about $1,800 a year, I’m paying the college $515 a year, then $164 to join the association and get insured.”